Part 1 of who knows how many posts about our Easter trip to Georgia, the former Soviet republic. First, the food! Did you see this excellent article in the New Yorker? Georgian cuisine is having a well-deserved moment. Southerners, take…
The travel sketchbook, or carnet de voyage, is HUGE in France. There are festivals devoted to them in lots of places. Artists come from all over Europe to show off their work. I’ve now been to two, and am booked…
Friend Alice and I (and Psychokitty, of course) went to Dresden in November. I had always wanted to see this city that was bombed to smithereens in the Second World War. The city had a melancholy feel. Large parts of…
When you get up at 5, having given up on sleep, it is a LONG TIME until the mall opens at 10! I made my way to said mall when it opened and it did not disappoint–it was crazily enormous,…
CIMG0346 Originally uploaded by faithmclellan This photo was taken in Bern, Switzerland. More in latest photo set on Flickr.
In Paris. Roared around the city on foot on Friday for 14 hours straight. So tired when I got in bed that I couldn’t sleep at all. Early Saturday morning I was certain I was coming down with the flu.…
It is a grey, overcast morning in Brazzaville. I am sitting outside on the hotel grounds, the nice part where there is a nice pool
Nick Kristof, who is one of my heroes, met us on the Jimma leg of the trip. Here’s what he wrote in yesterday’s Times: February 18, 2007 Op-Ed Columnist Torture by Worms By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF JIMMA, Ethiopia Presidents are…
I’ve been back in Brooklyn for about 3 days, and my African journey seems like a dream. Especially after what I’ve just seen, it’s even harder than usual to understand why one of the lead stories on the Today Show…
Here are some of the kids I met in a village in NIgeria–the name of which I will come up with shortly!